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Of the imputation of Christ's righteousness to believers in what sense [sic] sound Protestants…Of the imputation of Christ's righteousness to believers in what sence [sic] sound Protestants…
Of the imputation of Christ's righteousness to believers in what sense [sic] sound Protestants hold it and of the false devised sense by which libertines subvert the Gospel : with an answer to some common objections, especially of Dr. Thomas Tully whose Justif. Paulina occasioneth the publication of this / by Richard Baxter a compassionate lamenter of the Church's wounds caused by hasty judging ... and by the theological wars which are hereby raised and managed ...Of the imputation of Christ's righteousness to believers in what sence [sic] sound Protestants hold it and of the false divised sence by which libertines subvert the Gospel : with an answer to some common objections, especially of Dr. Thomas Tully whose Justif. Paulina occasioneth the publication of this / by Richard Baxter a compassionate lamenter of the Church's wounds caused by hasty judging ... and by the theological wars which are hereby raised and managed ...
London: printed for Nevil Simmons and Jonathan Robinson, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
But if by [Private and Public Justification]; he means [secret and open]. 1. How can he hope to be understood when he will use Political Terms unexplained, out of the usual sense of Politicians: But no men use to abuse words more than they that would keep the Church in flames by wordy Controversies, as if they were of the terms of Life and Death. 2. And even in that sense our first Justification is public or open, quoad Actum Justificancantis, as being by the Donation of a public Word of God; Though quoad effectum in recipient, it must needs be secret till the Day of Judgment, no Man knowing another's Heart, whether he be indeed a sound Believer: And so of the rest as is intimated.
But if by [Private and Publick Justification]; he means [secret and open]. 1. How can he hope to be understood when he will use Political Terms unexplained, out of the usual sense of Politicians: But no men use to abuse words more than they that would keep the Church in flames by wordy Controversies, as if they were of the terms of Life and Death. 2. And even in that sense our first Justification is publick or open, quoad Actum Justificancantis, as being by the Donation of a publick Word of God; Though quoad effectum in recipiente, it must needs be secret till the Day of Judgment, no Man knowing anothers Heart, whether he be indeed a sound Believer: And so of the rest as is intim•ted.
Concerning, what I have said before, some may Object, 1. That there is no such thing as our Justification notified before the Angels in Heaven. 2. That the Sententia Concepta is God's Immanent Acts, and therefore Eternal.
Answ. To the first, I say, 1. It is certain by Luk. 15.10. that the Angels know of the Conversion of a Sinner, and therefore of his Justification and publicly Rejoice therein. Therefore it is notified to them. 2. But I refer the Reader for this, to what I have said to Mr. Tombs in my Disputation of Justification, where I do give my thoughts, That this is not the Justification by Faith meant by Paul, as Mr. Tombs asserteth it to be.